Well damn. The GOP can’t even feign compassion in order to rebrand their party’s image. Perhaps throwing the entire ‘I got mine’ motivation would be a good way to begin. The Political Carnival posted this jaw dropping email exchange between Rep. James Lockhart (D) and Rep. Mike Reynolds (R). Lockhart was reaching out to his colleague in order to help his constituents. The audacity!

Basically we are doing a poor job of improving the lives of the people we represent… [M]ost people think we either don’t care about them or are unable to do something about improving their standard of living.

I am here to try to improve the quality of life of the average person in however small a way possible.

I would suggest you do the same.

Reynolds in part replied:

It is not our job to see that anyone gets an education. It is not the responsibility of me, you, or any constituent in my district to pay for his or any other persons education… Their potential to benefit society is irrelevant.

Political Carnival notes the irony, “By the way, “person’s” should have an apostrophe, Mr. Not Our Job To See That Anyone Gets An Education. Clearly Reynolds never had one.”

In words Reynolds can understand: You guise is doin’ it wrong.

In fairness, Reynolds is only saying what Republicans think. At least he’s consistent.

Conover was Commander of Jade Helm 15 during the failed takeover of the South. She's also one of the biggest arseholes on Twitter. At night, she can be found drinking Conservative tears while pulling off the wings of flies just because she can. She writes for other sites, too. She's an awful person but she doesn't like to brag about that.

And, of course, in the spirit of the conversation, the end sentence (and I use the term loosely because I see no verb whatsoever) “There more here” probably means More here, or There is more here or some such thing. I’m a liberal, but, just sayin’…

Funny, in my browser I see “There’s more here” wherein the verb “is” has been contracted into the “There” for the compound word “There’s” – fail = YOURS

Anon E Moose

Ahhh, so I, John Q. Taxpayer, am expected to fund every jackwagon who wants to get their B.S. in Underwater Basket Weaving? I am not against the taxpayer funding of the deserving poor to receive an education, but we live in a society that worships college as the be-all end-all of success, when 80% of what they do is really financially irrelevant.

That Guy

“I am here to try to improve the quality of life of the average person in however small a way possible.” =/= “I, John Q. Taxpayer, am expected to fund every jackwagon who wants to get their B.S. in Underwater Basket Weaving?”

jerome healy

What most people fail to realize is that ALL baskets are woven under water. You have a basin of water in which you work in to keep the reeds wet and pliable.

The Legislature shall establish and maintain a system of free public schools wherein all the children of the State may be educated.

Sally

He’s not allowed to read anything but what ALEC sends him in his handy legislative packet. And I’m certain the only dictates about schools is to privatize them with vouchers ASAP. Or as soon as they finish making women victims and constantly pregnant.